Monroe County, Wisconsin

Denominational Groups, 2000

8,017	6,484		10,345	230	15,823
Evangelical Protestant	Mainline Protestant	Orthodox	Catholic	Other	Unclaimed

Congregational "adherents" include all full members, their children, and others who regularly attend services. The historically African American denominations are not included in the 2000 congregation and membership totals. Many are also missing in 1990 and most historically African American denominations are missing in the 1980 reports.
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Reports

Religious Bodies	Theology	Congregations	Adherents	% Change
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	0	+61	28.0%
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	0	+631	142.0%
Catholic Church	Catholic	0	+2,205	27.0%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	0	+102	82.0%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+188	n.a.
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-42	-36.0%
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+139	253.0%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	0	-27	-12.0%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	+3	+603	2079.0%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	0	+192	5.0%
Old Order Amish Church	Evangelical Protestant	+11	+592	186.0%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	-2	-123	-71.0%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	0	+92	249.0%
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	0	-109	-15.0%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	-2	-650	-30.0%
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+80	n.a.
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	-3	-1,094	-22.0%
	Totals:	+9	+2,840	+13.2%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 35,074; in 2000 it was 40,899. The total population changed 11.6%. The adherent totals for 1980 (21,526) represent 61.4% of the 1980 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (25,076) include 61.3% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1980 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 17 groups to calculate 1980-2000 change. These 17 groups had 21,466 adherents in 1980 and 24,306 adherents in 2000, for a change of 13.2%

Sources

The 2000 data were collected by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB) and includes statistics for 149 religious groups, including number of churches and adherents. Dale E. Jones, Sherri Doty, Clifford Grammich, James E. Horsch, Richard Houseal, Mac Lynn, John P. Marcum, Kenneth M. Sanchagrin and Richard H. Taylor supervised the collection. These data originally appeared in Religious Congregations & Membership in the United States, 2000, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

The 1980 data were collected by the Glenmary Research Center and include statistics for 111 Judeo-Christian church bodies, including number of churches and adherents. Bernard Quinn, Herman Anderson, Martin Bradley, Paul Goetting and Peggy Shriver supervised the collection. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1980, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

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